Top rated pathological movies with ratcheting up tension

Check out today’s highest ranked pathological movies with ratcheting up tension! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best pathological movies with ratcheting up tension, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Saint Maud (2020)

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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2020-10-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle

Rating

rating icon 6.606
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bated breath
  2. Ranked #1 for
    psychological character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    paranoid

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2 Influencer (2023)

While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, social media influencer Madison meets CW, who travels with ease and shows her a more uninhibited way of living. But CW's interest in her takes a darker turn.

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2023-05-18 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant

Rating

rating icon 6.17
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    maintaining tension
  2. Ranked #1 for
    stunningly beautiful
  3. Ranked #3 for
    drop-dead gorgeous

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Influencer trailer
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3 John and the Hole (2021)

While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

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2021-08-06 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Charlie Shotwell, Taissa Farmiga

Rating

rating icon 5.475
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    naturalistic dialogue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    adulthood
  3. Ranked #1 for
    with artistic merit

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4 The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

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2021-12-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn

Rating

rating icon 5.714
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    burnish
  2. Ranked #1 for
    non-existent character development
  3. Ranked #2 for
    sickly twisted

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5 Ma (2019)

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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2019-05-29 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers

Rating

rating icon 5.824
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    half-baked
  2. Ranked #2 for
    kind of lame
  3. Ranked #4 for
    slow beginning

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Ma trailer
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6 The Stylist (2020)

Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.

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2020-09-26 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant

Rating

rating icon 5.09
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    becoming obsessed
  2. Ranked #2 for
    swift pace
  3. Ranked #2 for
    tight editing

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7 Pearl (2022)

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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2022-09-16 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Mia Goth, Tandi Wright

Rating

rating icon 7.289
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    emo character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deranged
  3. Ranked #1 for
    glorious technicolor

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8 Let Him Go (2020)

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

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2020-11-05 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Diane Lane, Kevin Costner

Rating

rating icon 6.799
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    top-notch
  2. Ranked #1 for
    control freak
  3. Ranked #1 for
    wacko

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Let Him Go trailer
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9 The Invisible Man (2020)

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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2020-02-26 | Thriller / Science Fiction

Cast

Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge

Rating

rating icon 7.113
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    psychologically thrilling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    futuristic society
  3. Ranked #3 for
    with WTF moments

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The Invisible Man trailer
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10 The Lodge (2020)

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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2020-01-16 | Horror

Cast

Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell

Rating

rating icon 6.119
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5 for
    mentally unstable
  2. Ranked #6 for
    spine-tingling
  3. Ranked #7 for
    skin crawling

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The Lodge trailer
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